goodweather: (but not quite either!)
Phil Connors ([personal profile] goodweather) wrote in [personal profile] serialskiller 2023-01-29 08:09 am (UTC)

"Yeah--yeah, I know it isn't." It comes out sharper than he means it to. "It's time shit, I don't know. I'm--"

His talons scrape his skin as he starts getting twitchy, adding red lines to the ones already criss-crossing his arms under his sleeves. "But. Thank you. God, I... I'm still not used to time moving so fast. You know? It's still weird to see people remember my name and recognize who I am. It's so weird to realize people, like, remember conversations. Or that I have to shave. Or do laundry. Or see the sun. I feel like I'm lagging all the time. Or like I'm always having some kind of headache.

"It was--it was--it was nice, you know, to not have any consequences, sometimes. I eventually... Punx is home now. I mean, it kind of had to be. I lived there longer than I've lived anywhere else. The people were nice. Are nice. I've gone back. I don't know what it's going to be like here, though, and it's, I just... I think... it would be better, if you were there for the next eternity."

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